The commentaries of M. John Calvin upon the Acts of the Apostles, faithfully translated…The commentaries of M. Iohn Caluin vpon the Actes of the Apostles, faithfully translated…

19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. 20 But I preached first to those which are at Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and through every region of Judea: and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, and be turned unto God, doing works which become those which repent, 21 For this cause the Jews having caught me in the temple, went about to kill me. 22 Therefore seeing I have obtained help of God, I stand until this present day, testifying both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses said should come to pass. 23 Whether Christ should suffer, whether he should be the first that should rise from the dead, to show light to the people and to the Gentiles.

19 Whereuppon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heauenly vision. 20 But I preached first to those which are at Damascus, and at Ierusalem, and through euery region of Iudea: and then to the Gentiles, that they shoulde repent, and bee turned vnto God, doing woorkes which become those whiche repent, 21 For this cause the Iewes hauing caught mee in the temple, went about to kil mee. 22 Therefore seeing I haue obtained helpe of God, I stande vntill this present day, testifying both to small and great, saying none other things thē those which the prophets and Moses said should come to passe. 23 Whether Christ should suffer, whether he should be the first that should rise from the dead, to shew light to the people and to the Gentiles.

19 He declareth now briefly to what end he rehearsed the history of his conversion: to wit, that Agrippa & the rest might understand, that he had God for his author of all those things which the Jews condemned of Sacrilege and apostasy. He speaketh to Agrippa by name, because he knew that Festus and the Romans knew not what an heavenly vision meant. Now it appeareth that there is nothing in the very sum of his doctrine which dissenteth from the law and the prophets. Whereby the oracle doth win greater credit, whereby Paul was commanded to teach nothing but that which was agreeable to the scripture. Conversion or turning unto God is joined with repentance not as some peculiar thing: but that we may know what it is to repent. Like as also on the contrary the corruption of men and their frowardness is nothing else but an estranging from God. And because repentance is an inward thing and placed in the affection of the heart, Paul requireth in the second place, such works as may make the same known: according to that exhortation of John the baptist: